Resources

Pear Research
CAHMRS Department of Horticulture
Genomics Lab, Washington State University
Pullman, Washington
See website for researchers' affiliations
A consortium of scientists are developing a sequencing methodology to access the enormous and complex pear genome.

Pear Genomics Project
David Neale, Sara Montanari, Pedro Martinez-Garcia
Department of Plant Sciences
University of California, Davis
Focus on marker-based breeding technologies for pear improvement.

Genome Database for Rosaceae
See website for researchers' affiliations
A relational database providing data mining tools and publicly available genomics, genetics and breeding data for Rosaceae to aid research.

Pyrus Germplasm
USDA ARS National Clonal Germplasm Repository
Corvalis, Oregon
Joseph Postman, Nahla Bassil
Search function for Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) database, pear-related organizations, text on historic fruits, pests and diseases

RosBREED Project
Combining Disease Resistance with Horticultural Quality in New Rosaceous Cultivars is a USDA-SCRI awarded project focused on developing and applying modern DNA tests and related breeding methods to deliver new cultivars – cultivated varieties – of rosaceous crops in 22 U.S. breeding programs

WSU Tree Fruit Research
Research-based information for the Washington tree fruit industry